The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Crowns of Nyaxia • Book 1
by Carissa Broadbent
Narrated by Amanda Leigh Cobb
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
A human surrounded by vampires who want to kill her falls for one anyway — and Amanda Leigh Cobb makes the whole thing feel dangerously plausible.
- Great if you want: enemies-to-lovers romantasy where the danger feels genuinely lethal
- Listening experience: propulsive tournament arc with slow-burn romantic tension running underneath
- Narration: Cobb renders Oraya's survival instincts and quiet vulnerability with equal conviction
- Skip if: you've hit your ceiling on morally gray vampire love interests
About This Audiobook
Oraya has spent her life as the adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, surviving a world that treats her species as prey through sheer force of will. When she enters the Kejari, a death tournament held by the goddess of death herself, she forms an alliance with Raihn, a vampire rival whose motivations she cannot fully read. Carissa Broadbent's dark fantasy romance is set in a world of competing vampire houses, ancient goddess politics, and a central relationship built on mutual suspicion that neither party entirely controls.
Amanda Leigh Cobb's narration suits Oraya's guarded, combative interiority, giving the internal conflict between self-protection and desire the emotional texture the story requires. Cobb handles the action sequences with clarity and the romantic scenes with restraint, allowing the tension to build through what is withheld rather than what is stated. At fifteen hours, The Serpent and the Wings of Night earns its enormous readership.
